In Christ: The Believer’s Wealth and Walk
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Imagine with me a carpenter’s shop for a moment. Look around and see all the tools at the disposal of the master carpenter. Each day, the carpenter comes in with his plan to build using a collection of tools. These tools without a carpenter won’t accomplish much. Now, imagine that these tools could talk. One
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The second item that we must see in this passage is the virtues of our walk that enable and strengthen our unity. Eph. 4:2-3 says, “2 With all lowliness and meekness, with longsuffering, forbearing one another in love;3 Endeavouring to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace.” The first thing about the walk
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If we were to take part in a survey about our feelings toward fried chicken livers, there would be a variety of answers to choose from. There would be the crowd, more than likely a small minority who can’t get enough of them. Another crowd would be the ones who think chicken livers are just
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Secondly, we must respond to God’s excellent sufficiency. Read Eph. 3:20 once again. Just for good measure, one more time. Now, we must see here as well that God is not only excellent in His ability but also His sufficiency. God is the only self-sufficient being. He is eternally self-existent and therefore eternally self-sufficient. God
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As we have been studying the book of Ephesians there has been a great deal of doctrinal truth that has been presented in the first three chapters. The doctrinal truth is to be transformational truth applied by faith in our daily walk. Throughout Ephesians, there has been a threefold theme of doctrine, doxology, and devotion.
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Not only does God want us to be empowered but He wants us to be established. If you want our branches to be higher and fruit to be wider, then our roots need to be deeper. Eph. 3:17 says, “17 That Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith; that ye, being rooted and grounded in
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We live in a physically focused world. We tend to focus on what is in front of us, the things that we can see, feel, taste, touch and hear. Very few of us ponder spiritual things or the spiritual significance of mundane earthly activity. Most Christians, like the lost world, spend more time thinking about
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The second section that we must see in this passage is the priority of the unsearchable riches. We have seen the preaching of the riches but now we see the priority of not only the riches of Christ but the preaching of those riches. Eph. 3:10-11 says, “10 To the intent that now unto the principalities
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In our study of the book of Ephesians, we have seen the repeated message of the believer’s wealth and walk in Christ. The believer’s wealth in Christ is their position in Christ. Our positional identity of belonging to Christ then enables our behavior practically living out who we are in Christ. The walk of the
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Secondly, let’s look at the management of the mystery. Eph. 3:2-5 says, “ 2 If ye have heard of the dispensation of the grace of God which is given me to you-ward: 3 How that by revelation he made known unto me the mystery; (as I wrote afore in few words, 4 Whereby, when ye read, ye may
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